LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 2020

SAVE THE DATE

For those of you who need to plan ahead for your vacations, next year ISA will hold its

(That is the week following the Kentucky Derby.)

We hope to see you there!

LAS VEGAS 2018

We want to thank our sponsors for last year's conference in Las Vegas:

American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Alaska Airlines were kind enough to donate tickets/miles.
Abington Watches donated a very nice watch that bidders coveted. https://theabingdonco.com/
Jet Set Candy donated beautiful gold and silver aviation-themed necklaces! https://jetsetcandy.com/
Qantas provided glasses and souvenirs in anticipation of 2019 in Sydney.
And of course our members were more than generous, as they are every year with their donated items, as well as bidding high and often!

25 YEARS OF CONVENTIONS

Easy! I have made friends with women from around the world. Friendships that will last a lifetime!

Did I mention I love adventure too?

And oh, the adventures we have had! Elephant riding in Thailand, jungle walks in Costa Rica, wonderful adventures all.

And oh, the memories! If you younger F/O’s will indulge an old captain just a little longer, I would like to list them all, but I’ll condense them to one liners (if I can):

1988 Rome: meeting this marvelous group of accomplished women for the first time. Jump seating on a Pan Am 747 along with another United woman pilot. The captain had never had one woman pilot in his cockpit, let alone two!

1989 Maui: sharing a condo with five other United ladies. Does anything really need to be said about Hawaii!?

1990 Washington, D.C: dinner at the Saudi Embassy! Sitting on the floor in our cocktail dresses.

1991 Helsinki: first convention my husband attended. Cruising on a Russian tramp steamer to St. Petersburg. Having creamed peas for dinner on the ship and again at breakfast the next morning!

1995 Bangkok: the above mentioned elephant ride plus rafting down a jungle river on a bamboo raft, as Nancy Novaes floated by, asking if I thought we’d still be having these adventures when we were old (yes!).

1996 Fort Worth: riding the mechanical bull at Billy Bob’s! DC-3 ride to Galveston. Dinner at the Johnson Space Center with several astronauts.

1997 Amsterdam: Ah the tulips at Keukenhof Gardens! The wonderful evening at the aviation museum.

1998 Las Vegas: the 20th Anniversary! Largest convention ever with about 250 in attendance. Side trip to the Grand Canyon. Hiking down the canyon with Kathleen Malone. Wanting a mule to take me back up

2000 Costa Rica: flying my Debonair down there was a huge adventure as was having to land at a Mexican Air Force Base without permission on the way home, when we developed a huge oil leak! The volcanoes, the weekend at Torteguero National Park with the howler monkeys.

2002 New Orleans: all still suffering shell-shock from the aftermath of 9-11. Beautiful hotel in the famous French Quarter and wonderful dinners at some of the city’s great restaurants.

2003 Zurich: the enormous beauty of Switzerland. Spent extra days there driving around the country, and had to stop at Liechtenstein. Took 20 minutes to drive the length of that country! Side trip to Zermatt, at the foot of the Matterhorn.

2009 Montreal: beautiful city, great side trip to Quebec City. Bus broke down on way back to Montreal!

2010 St. Louis: first convention I ever drove to as it was only five hours from my house and easier than getting there on the airlines. Bones, Blue Owl and Boeing tour. Loaded up my Explorer with friends and drove south to the Cave Winery.

2011 Ah, Rome again! Left a week early for a train tour of Munich, Venice, & Florence with the husband. Tour of the Vatican & Sistine Chapel. Side trip to Pompeii and Sorrento. Didn’t want it to end!

2012 Seattle: another favorite city. Fabulous tour of Boeing. Seeing my cousin, a Boeing engineer, for the first time in about 20 years.

I’m planning on making the next 25 conventions—hope to see you there!-Carolyn

The next 25 years...

By Kathryn McCullough

2013 Budapest... will any of us forget being on Castle Hill with wonderful views of Pest?! Or the incredible, delicious welcome reception dinner?!

2014 San Antonio: How many Type As does it take to arrange a photo op? Thankfully the photographer had his own agenda and the bridge photo is one of our best!

2015 Berlin: The history! The tour around (and around) trying to find the airport! Segwaying in Dresden along the Elbe! Oh what a conference!

2016 Newport Beach: California sea lions and John Wayne's yacht. Beautiful Santa Barbara side trip... unforgettable... and you thought you had seen southern California!

2017 Toronto: What a beautiful city! The comedy club was so fun, and the sidetrip to Niagara Falls was breathtaking! Our clock tower photo is another photographer win/win!

2018 Las Vegas: A great time was had by all with a wonderful presentation by Beverley Bass and Terry Rinehart. A dam tour, followed by a beautiful, albeit hot, boat ride on Lake Mead completed our 40th.

2019 Sydney...wow! What a conference! If we have ever had a better one, I can't imagine what it was like!-Kathy